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Caravan, Vol. 64, No. 16

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CARAVAN
Vol 64, No. I 6
55 medals awarded to athletes on sports day
By Ben Bushaija
Twenty four gold medals and 18 silver ones were awarded to the best sportsmen and women of the year at the annual Sports Day in front of the library on April 28.
AUC girls were first among 16 universities in the 1984 National Universities Tournament and AUC was fourth overall.
The traditional Sports Day, organized by the Sports Department opened at noon with ' the famous army band playing el
I qerab (bagpipes) at the sports
I courts.
In mild temperatures, the final I football tournament match was
won by Ahmed Zaher’s team, defeating Ahmed Habib’s team, 4-2.
In women’s basketball AUC played Citibank in a friendly match and AUC men played Helwan University.
I Later in the evening, medals 1 were awarded at a colorful
I ceremony in front of the library,
attended by about 300 AUCians and members of staff.
They included 24 gold, 18 silver, 13 bronze, and trophies and certificates to the outstanding sportsmen and women of the year Swimming took 14 gold medals, six silver and two bronze.
Marium Wahid Farid and Azz.a Singer received 3 gold medals each for swimming while Mona Ashoura received 2.
The “best-record” trophies went to Azza Singer and Mariam Farid and for the best effort Amr El Sayed, Amr Khedr and Attia Abden.
The best “sports spirit” individuals were Bahaa Hussein and Vivian Abdel Malek.
The best all around sportsman and woman of the year were Ayman Gamal, a sophomore, and Vivian Abdel Malek, also a sophomore, respectively.
“This year has been the most active ever,” Mr. Hassan Ahmed, the sports director, said. Fortyeight percent of AUC students participated in the sports program in this year’s 135 sports contests and sports days; 245 students were in the National University Tournament.
President Richard Pedersen in the shortest speech ever praised
The Student Newspaper of AUC
May I 0, I 984
I i
Ahmed Said, top left, moves in Two players "dance" in women's Cyclists exchange ideas before Minds wander as AUCians await
the sportsmen and wished them goodluck.
“We are proud for what you have done this year,” said Jean Montassir, director of students affairs.
The Vice President Dr. Abdel Khalek Allam praised the role of sports in the students life: there is a
SU Elections:
UNlVtKSlTY ARCHIVtb ' A. U. C. LIBRARY |
Dahlia wins by 266 votes
By Nesreen Hafez & Dina Lamey
Dahlia Khalifa, economics junior, was elected president of the Student Union with 589 votes as opposed to 323 to Galal el Ghor, mechanical engineering sopho more, 132 to Khaled Elgibaly, economics senior. Twenty votes were counted invalid. A total of 1064 votes were cast.
Awaiting the outcome of the elections on April 19, a number of students gathered in the cafeteria outside the SU office.
After counting every 100 votes, Ahmed Said, the president of the SU, announced the results to the eager students through a microphone.
The news showed that Dahlia was, all the time, ahead of the other two candidates.
Supporters cheered the news when it was in favor of their candidate.
This procedure went on until it covered 800 votes; then Ahmed declared that the next announcement would be the final one.
When Dahlia was proclaimed the winner, her supporters cheered loudly and climbed on her shoulders trying to hug her and offer their congratulations.
Among her first congratulators were Ahmed Said and Khaled Elgibaly.
Asking some of her supporters why they voted for Dahlia, Alaa El Sheik, economics sophomore, said, “I believe in equal chances for everyone. We have tried male presidents for a long time, let us see
what a female one can do.”
Othman Malek, sociology sophomore, said that the previous SU presidents achieved absolutely nothing in regard to foreign students, especially on the tuition issue.
Othman, who is Sudanese, said that the decrease in the tuition achieved by the last SU president was only applied to Egyptians, which according to him, is unfair. Othman said that he puts his hope on a female president to try to achieve what males could not.
Rania Galal, economics
Dahlia Khalifa SU Preaident-eloct .
graduating senior, said, “I believe in her for she is good and reliable and I regret that I’m leaving the university before being under her presidency. If people say that a girl is incapable of holding the post of the president of the SU, then 1 answer by saying that she is very capable and responsible.”
A historic turnout
to score, football match, the whistle, the next' event.
Photos by Nabll Arar direct parallel between practicing a sport and success in life. He also said that the university is contempleting giving credit hours to sports “so as to give chance to those who want to practice sports.” He extended congratulations to Ahmed Said who is going to the Olympics next month and said “we
By Sahar Khamis
The turnout in the SU presidency election—won by Dahlia Khalifa — was a historic 63 percent. It was the “greatest (percentage) achieved until now,” Soad el-Taji, a member of the SU Elections Committee, said.
She said 1,604 of the 2,546 students voted.
“The reason behind this great enthusiasm about voting is that it was the first time that a girl ran for the SU presidency,” Wael Keseba, freshman, said.
“This time the election was a challenge,” Marianne el-Nagdy, mechanical engineering senior, said.
“There were two completely different, but strong characters competing, that is Dahlia and Galal. Before it was always clear who was the strongest and who was going to win,” Marianne said.
hope to see more in the forthcoming Olympics.”
Dahlia Kahlifa, the SU president-elect later told Caravan that she wants to uphold the standard of sports at AUC.
“I will promote it, as it is part of education. Thank God we have a strong Sports Department,” she
There were nine members of the Elections Committee in the room, two calculating for every candidate, and one counting the number of votes on the computer.
An l.D. card or any other form of identification was required for voting. The Committee members checked the names of the students on the computer sheets, and stamped their l.D. cards.
Three of the Committee members signed the voting slip that the students checked.
The voting box was opend Thursday, April 19, at noon and the process of calculating the votes continued until 2:45 p.m.
After every hundred votes, there was a revision to make sure that there was accuracy in the counting process, and the results were announced and declared to the students.
said.
Nihal Tamraz, Arabic studies junior, who received a gold medal for rowing later said, “I feel great and happy.”
Franco Ntazindwa, economics junior, a taekondo player who received a gold medal and a trophy, said he felt “great and powerful.”

CARAVAN
Vol 64, No. I 6
55 medals awarded to athletes on sports day
By Ben Bushaija
Twenty four gold medals and 18 silver ones were awarded to the best sportsmen and women of the year at the annual Sports Day in front of the library on April 28.
AUC girls were first among 16 universities in the 1984 National Universities Tournament and AUC was fourth overall.
The traditional Sports Day, organized by the Sports Department opened at noon with ' the famous army band playing el
I qerab (bagpipes) at the sports
I courts.
In mild temperatures, the final I football tournament match was
won by Ahmed Zaher’s team, defeating Ahmed Habib’s team, 4-2.
In women’s basketball AUC played Citibank in a friendly match and AUC men played Helwan University.
I Later in the evening, medals 1 were awarded at a colorful
I ceremony in front of the library,
attended by about 300 AUCians and members of staff.
They included 24 gold, 18 silver, 13 bronze, and trophies and certificates to the outstanding sportsmen and women of the year Swimming took 14 gold medals, six silver and two bronze.
Marium Wahid Farid and Azz.a Singer received 3 gold medals each for swimming while Mona Ashoura received 2.
The “best-record” trophies went to Azza Singer and Mariam Farid and for the best effort Amr El Sayed, Amr Khedr and Attia Abden.
The best “sports spirit” individuals were Bahaa Hussein and Vivian Abdel Malek.
The best all around sportsman and woman of the year were Ayman Gamal, a sophomore, and Vivian Abdel Malek, also a sophomore, respectively.
“This year has been the most active ever,” Mr. Hassan Ahmed, the sports director, said. Fortyeight percent of AUC students participated in the sports program in this year’s 135 sports contests and sports days; 245 students were in the National University Tournament.
President Richard Pedersen in the shortest speech ever praised
The Student Newspaper of AUC
May I 0, I 984
I i
Ahmed Said, top left, moves in Two players "dance" in women's Cyclists exchange ideas before Minds wander as AUCians await
the sportsmen and wished them goodluck.
“We are proud for what you have done this year,” said Jean Montassir, director of students affairs.
The Vice President Dr. Abdel Khalek Allam praised the role of sports in the students life: there is a
SU Elections:
UNlVtKSlTY ARCHIVtb ' A. U. C. LIBRARY |
Dahlia wins by 266 votes
By Nesreen Hafez & Dina Lamey
Dahlia Khalifa, economics junior, was elected president of the Student Union with 589 votes as opposed to 323 to Galal el Ghor, mechanical engineering sopho more, 132 to Khaled Elgibaly, economics senior. Twenty votes were counted invalid. A total of 1064 votes were cast.
Awaiting the outcome of the elections on April 19, a number of students gathered in the cafeteria outside the SU office.
After counting every 100 votes, Ahmed Said, the president of the SU, announced the results to the eager students through a microphone.
The news showed that Dahlia was, all the time, ahead of the other two candidates.
Supporters cheered the news when it was in favor of their candidate.
This procedure went on until it covered 800 votes; then Ahmed declared that the next announcement would be the final one.
When Dahlia was proclaimed the winner, her supporters cheered loudly and climbed on her shoulders trying to hug her and offer their congratulations.
Among her first congratulators were Ahmed Said and Khaled Elgibaly.
Asking some of her supporters why they voted for Dahlia, Alaa El Sheik, economics sophomore, said, “I believe in equal chances for everyone. We have tried male presidents for a long time, let us see
what a female one can do.”
Othman Malek, sociology sophomore, said that the previous SU presidents achieved absolutely nothing in regard to foreign students, especially on the tuition issue.
Othman, who is Sudanese, said that the decrease in the tuition achieved by the last SU president was only applied to Egyptians, which according to him, is unfair. Othman said that he puts his hope on a female president to try to achieve what males could not.
Rania Galal, economics
Dahlia Khalifa SU Preaident-eloct .
graduating senior, said, “I believe in her for she is good and reliable and I regret that I’m leaving the university before being under her presidency. If people say that a girl is incapable of holding the post of the president of the SU, then 1 answer by saying that she is very capable and responsible.”
A historic turnout
to score, football match, the whistle, the next' event.
Photos by Nabll Arar direct parallel between practicing a sport and success in life. He also said that the university is contempleting giving credit hours to sports “so as to give chance to those who want to practice sports.” He extended congratulations to Ahmed Said who is going to the Olympics next month and said “we
By Sahar Khamis
The turnout in the SU presidency election—won by Dahlia Khalifa — was a historic 63 percent. It was the “greatest (percentage) achieved until now,” Soad el-Taji, a member of the SU Elections Committee, said.
She said 1,604 of the 2,546 students voted.
“The reason behind this great enthusiasm about voting is that it was the first time that a girl ran for the SU presidency,” Wael Keseba, freshman, said.
“This time the election was a challenge,” Marianne el-Nagdy, mechanical engineering senior, said.
“There were two completely different, but strong characters competing, that is Dahlia and Galal. Before it was always clear who was the strongest and who was going to win,” Marianne said.
hope to see more in the forthcoming Olympics.”
Dahlia Kahlifa, the SU president-elect later told Caravan that she wants to uphold the standard of sports at AUC.
“I will promote it, as it is part of education. Thank God we have a strong Sports Department,” she
There were nine members of the Elections Committee in the room, two calculating for every candidate, and one counting the number of votes on the computer.
An l.D. card or any other form of identification was required for voting. The Committee members checked the names of the students on the computer sheets, and stamped their l.D. cards.
Three of the Committee members signed the voting slip that the students checked.
The voting box was opend Thursday, April 19, at noon and the process of calculating the votes continued until 2:45 p.m.
After every hundred votes, there was a revision to make sure that there was accuracy in the counting process, and the results were announced and declared to the students.
said.
Nihal Tamraz, Arabic studies junior, who received a gold medal for rowing later said, “I feel great and happy.”
Franco Ntazindwa, economics junior, a taekondo player who received a gold medal and a trophy, said he felt “great and powerful.”